Revenue Scans : Worldwide

I don't think they are in Forbin. If I recall correctly, I have mine marked as revenue paper from the Philippines, but I'm not certain that is correct.

A few more, British and BC,

A 5-shilling Transfer Duty from 1889:


A KGV Jamaica Judicial revenue, 1-shilling:


New South Wales, King Edward VII 3-shillings:

(Atrocious centering, but it only set me back 25 cents.)

Cape of Good Hope cigarette duty, KEVII:

Here are a couple $2 Straits Settlements Postage & Revenue stamps doing their revenue duty, on piece:



Great Britain Health and Pensions 1/1 revenue:


Sierra Leone Queen Victoria revenues 1-4:


Great Britain Consular Service 1 pound KGV:

Revenue stamp from the "Mancomunitat de Catalunya". A short-lived (1914-1925) union of the four Catalan provinces administrations: Lleida, Barcelona, Tarragona and Girona.
A "province" is the Spanish (not Catalan!)administrative division, copied from the French department, still in force.

Quite well designed, very much on line with the Catalan state of art of early 20th century. Here is known as "Nou-centisme" (1900's style).

Cursus, pretty 'stamp'! I suppose a Spanish 'province' is the same as a Dutch or Belgian 'provincie'; a leftover of Napoleon?

Yes, it is. So, it's perceived by Catalans as something artificial and foreign. It has nothing to do with our human and geographical reality. It was used by the Spanish to divide our country.

Our traditional territory division is the "comarca" (plural: "comarques"), linked to market-towns and very much like Anglo-Saxon shires. The administrative organisation of an independent Catalonia, will be based in the comarca.

The "Mancomunitat de Catalunya", was our first attempt to reunite the country. It was abolished in 1925 by the military dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1929). Yet, the Mancomunitat, ruled by able people, did a very good job in modernising Catalonia, still perceived today in a number of fields.

Here is the 5-shilling Stellaland from the 1886 series:




The 1884 series was overprinted in 1886 as a control mark necessitated by the theft of a stock of the stamps. The monogram is J.P.M., for J.P. Minnaar. A block of four appears back on page 16 of this thread.

I'm going to add this inverted overprint for comment, if anyone has a thought on it. It might just be overinked, but it doesn't look nearly as 'clean' as any others I have, or that I can recall seeing.

Was the control printed or handstamped? Handstamping would account for the variability.

From memory, I was thinking that the block was quite well aligned, but taking another look at it...



...I don't know.

Romania 1936
Aviation Fund.

50 cents last wills stamp, issued around 1932 by the Catalan Notary Public Guild and written in Catalan.
Overprinted in Spanish in 1939 after Barcelona's occupation by the fascist army.
There can be seen the words "Arriba España" (Hurrah Spain!) in red and "Mutualidad Notarial" (Notaries welfare found) as well as the new face value, 2 ptas, in black.

Nice one

A bit of a curiosity from Rajasthan, in India:



In 1948, the newly independent Indian government ordered the postal systems of the old Indian States of Rajputana, Bundi, Jaipur and Kishangarh, to merge into the new State of Rajasthan, before closing them down entirely in 1950.

Bundi and Jaipur overprinted their then current definitive sets with the new name 'Rajasthan'. Kishangarh, on the other hand, emptied out the safe, and handstamped 'Rajasthan' onto all sorts of remainders, going back 50 years. Despite this, it had occasional shortages of 1 Anna stamps, and so authorised the use of the 1 Anna blue revenue stamp above for postal use. Gibbons doesn't list it, but refers to it in a footnote. (The 2 Anna stamp, incidentally, was from the 1913 definitive set.)

Is that number at the bottom the price you paid, or the inventory number?

Neither, thank goodness. It's a BPA Certificate number.

This is one of those items you'd never buy without a clear certificate from a competent expertising body.